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LEAD (pronounced iced)

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Originally appearing in Volume V16, Page 314 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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LEAD (pronounced iced)  , a city of Lawrence county, South Dakota, U.S.A., situated in the Black Hills, at an altitude of about 5300 ft., 3m . S.W. of
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Deadwood . Pop . (189o) 2581, (1900) 621o, of whom 2145 were
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foreign-born, (1905) 8217, (1910) 8392 . In 19o5 it was second in population among the cities of the state . It is served by the Chicago,
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Burlington & Quincy, the Chicago & North-Western, and the Chicago,
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Milwaukee & St Paul
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railways . Lead has a hospital, the Hearst
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Free Library and the Hearst Free
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Kindergarten, and is the see of a
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Roman Catholic bishopric . It is the centre of the
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mining interests of the Black Hills, and the Homestake Gold Mine here contains perhaps the largest and most easily worked mass of low-grade ore and one of the largest mining
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plants (r000 stamps) in the
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world; it has also three
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cyanide mills . From 1878 to 1906 the value of the gold taken from this mine amounted to about $58,000,000, and the
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net value of the product of 1906 alone was approximately $5,313,516 . For two months in the spring of 1907 the mine was rendered idle by a fire (March 25), which was so severe that it was necessary to flood the entire mine . Mining tools and gold jewelry are manufactured . The first settlement was made here by mining prospectors in
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July 1876 .

Lead was chartered as a city in 1890 and became a city of the first class in 1904 .

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